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Protuberance :: Protuberance (n.) That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.

Protuberate :: Protuberate (v. i.) To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle..

Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride..

Bombast :: Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f

Node :: Node (n.) A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling..

Sea-gait :: Sea-gait (n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount..

Tumorous :: Tumorous (a.) Swelling; protuberant.

Size :: Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

Surge :: Surge (v. i.) To swell; to rise hifg and roll.

Gourdy :: Gourdy (a.) Swelled in the legs.

Diodon :: Diodon (n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs..

Mouse :: Mouse (n.) A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow.

Swelled :: Swelled (imp.) of Swel.

Bump :: Bump (n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance..

Varicosity :: Varicosity (n.) An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.

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